witchesreign | round five

Say it's your friend's birthday tonight. How would you celebrate it? Personally, I'd head down to the ~~bar~~ ~~pub~~ restaurant and treat him to a good dinner, but I'm curious as to what you guys think. Sometimes the same old gets a little boring, so... what do you guys do to shake things up?

Just keep your suggestions PG-13. I'm pretty sure kids're still reading this thing, even if they're not very vocal about it.

- Instructor Tom Bronson

[As par for the course, Tom's hanging out in front of the local bar tonight. One has to wonder if he'll actually get kicked out for loitering around one of these days... Tom certainly remembers the days of hanging around the bars and getting treated as some suspicious creep just because he didn't actually go in for a long period of time.

He gives someone the Look before continuing to wait outside. Leaning against the wall, he folds his arms and stares up at the night sky. It's a lot prettier here in Fisherman's Horizon - and he can actually see the stars a lot better than back home - and for a moment, it takes his breath away.

... Right, he's waiting for someone. It'd probably be better to look ahead than up, but Tom doesn't seem concerned with that at the moment. If someone's looking for him, they'll know where to find him.]

[ooc | backdated to the 16th because I can't get things up on time. ;~; As usual, strikes're backspaced.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Dammit! Well, he'll get Cid to try some more. Eventually.]

It's just the truth. You don't remember the gossip columns? They kept claiming we were a couple, but... [He snorts, trying not to sound flustered or nervous.] Shar thought they were ridiculously false because we're "just friends" and it'd "never happen."

[The faint smile on Cid's lips clearly states that he is not convinced--at least of Tom's feelings on the matter.]

I suppose I will have to take your word on it. That gossip column really is absurd at times...

You're telling me. [Even if Cid's not convinced, Tom's trying to play this off as a victory. An awesome victory.] If the Cadets here have enough time to gossip, surely they've also got enough time to do other... more imaginative things.

I'm no artist, but seriously, maybe we could get them involved in something else?

Did you have something in mind? I know there are several clubs, but I assume that's not what you're referring to.

Nah, it could be a club. Just something that keeps the kids out of trouble, you know?

[It's the voice of experience speaking here.] I know that if I didn't have my clubs, I would've probably joined a Jewish gang or something.

A... Jewish gang?

[Gangs are something Cid can understand--not in the sense of ever having been in one, but for all the apparent paradisiacal nature of Cocoon, they had their own fair share of less-than-appealing groups running amuck. This Jewish bit though? That's a word he's never heard of.]

[Ah, right. Tom keeps forgetting that Cid's not from Earth.]

It's... a religion back in my world. My hometown had a lot of people called "Jews" and so it made sense that we had Jewish gangs.

[What he neglects to tell Cid is that he's technically Jewish. He just... doesn't act like it. At all.]

And are these Jewish gangs any different from normal ones?

[--Because Cid's fairly sure that they didn't have religious gangs back in Cocoon. The idea is, admittedly, a bit odd to him.]

Kind of. They have slightly different accents and the slang's different... but they're not like on a jihad or anything.

[Because while Tom knows a lot about Judaism, apparently Islam is a foreign concept.] I mean, uh... they're not crazy. Just violent.

[Cid is... not especially fond of the moments when he runs into topics he's not even at least a little familiar with, but any apparent displeasure is carefully masked behind a visage of polite confusion.]

Forgive me for needing to ask, but... Do you mean to imply that those who are on a jihad are crazy and violent?

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